CVE-2024-4847 SQL injection in Alt Text AI – Automatically generate image alt text for SEO and accessibility
Authenticated attackers can exploit SQL injection in the Alt Text AI plugin to extract sensitive database information.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2024-4847?
CVE-2024-4847 is a high-severity SQL injection vulnerability in alttextai Alt Text AI – Automatically generate image alt text for SEO and accessibility, published on 15 May 2024. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
The Alt Text AI – Automatically generate image alt text for SEO and accessibility plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to generic SQL Injection via the ‘last_post_id’ parameter in all versions up to, and including, 1.4.9 due to insufficient escaping on the user supplied parameter and lack of sufficient preparation on the existing SQL query. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to append additional SQL queries into already existing queries that can be used to extract sensitive information from the database.
Weakness: CWE-89
Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-4847?
How do I fix CVE-2024-4847?
No fix has been published for CVE-2024-4847 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Use parameterised queries everywhere and never build SQL by joining strings. Upgrade affected software first; a web application firewall only buys time. More about SQL injection.
Is CVE-2024-4847 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-4847 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-mgc5-fh63-4wc7.